MBA Comment: The world is rewarding serious people, why not you?

I met a female CEO a few days ago. She has failed three times in starting a business. She is currently on her fourth attempt. I asked her what she would do if she failed again this time. She laughed and said that starting a business is like reincarnation. The main thing is to see your fate, there is nothing to worry about, just do your best.

This reminds me of a recent popular inspirational short film "Where Will You Be in the Next Ten Years". The short film starts with a grandfather and granddaughter jogging in the sports center. The grandfather talks about his granddaughter graduating next year. It was time to prepare for work, and asked my granddaughter if she would be nervous. The granddaughter said yes, and the grandfather said, "Don't worry, just be serious."

These words sound good. You see, the world is fiercely rewarding serious people. Seriously, Wu Jing risked his life to make Wolf Warrior 2, and the box office was almost 5 billion.

But is this really the case? Many times, we will have a question, I am already so serious, why doesn’t the world reward me? Grandpa said that it is good to be serious, is it true?

The world rewards those who are serious and win

The female CEO who is a serial entrepreneur is single at the age of 40, very beautiful, and works very hard. The most difficult time was when I started a catering business for the first time.

Funds were very tight at the time. She had just opened a new store and needed big orders. She heard that a movie starring Nicholas Tse was filming in Shanghai, and the crew needed 1,000 lunch boxes every day, so she took her resume. Break into the set and tell others that I am starting a business and I really need your orders. Give me a chance.

After working hard, she got the order. It was already three or four o'clock in the morning. She rushed to the vegetable market with her staff and went back to the kitchen immediately after purchasing. She didn't go home for a week and slept two days a day. For three hours, in order to deliver the lunch box to the crew on time, it must not be spilled, cold, delivered early, or delivered late. After that, she said her stress tolerance level soared.

But that business venture still failed. After closing the store and dismissing the employees, she still owed 300,000 yuan in rent and had not paid it off. At night, she hid in bed and shed a few tears with restraint, thinking Why are you going through so much trouble? I have studied abroad and worked as a senior executive in a foreign company, so I have to put myself through such a hard life.

There are many serious people like her who have worked hard for a long time without seeing any rewards. A friend with a house, a car, a virtuous wife, and a well-behaved daughter quit his job at the age of 38 and worked hard from 5 a.m. to 10 a.m. to start a business. Last year, the company went bankrupt and two months of salary could not be paid. Many employees went to the court for arbitration. He may be If you are put on the blacklist, you will not be able to fly, go abroad, or even take a second-class seat on the high-speed rail.

"The world rewards people who are serious and win." A friend said, look, Luo Yonghao said, "I am not here to win or lose, I am serious." Others will ask, if you are serious enough , why successive generations of products cannot solve the problem of lagging market response? If you are serious enough, why can't you come up with a product that is even popular but not popular...

The world does not see how serious you are, but how serious you are. No win. Today we talk about Ang Lee, always with envy and reverence. Before he won, for so many years, he took the script to interview with countless companies and revised it countless times, but nothing happened, and there was no film for many years. Finally, a movie was made, but due to lack of funds, he moved furniture from home to the set to use as props. If he couldn't afford a child actor, he begged his eldest son to star in it.

If you don’t win, these efforts will seem worthless. At nearly 40 years old, this director genius is considered to have accomplished nothing, and talking about ideals is considered a joke. It wasn't until "Pushing Hands" became a hit and he won that his seriousness was mentioned.

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The world rewards people who don’t know how serious they are

Many times, you realize how serious you are. When you are serious, you actually fall into a serious mood rather than a serious state.

A friend who joined a start-up company said that during the monthly sales meeting, the team would stay up until two or three in the morning. This desperate atmosphere often made him have the urge to cry, but he resorted to He tried his best to chase and intercept the customers, but could not win them. The supervisor attributed this to the fact that salesmen were not careful enough to follow the customers and were not pushed into a corner. They lowered the basic salary, held mobilization meetings every morning, and worked overtime 996 hours. Unexpectedly, the company was still bankrupt after half a year.

“In fact, it was so difficult to sell products at that time, and everyone still couldn’t get results despite their efforts, because the products were not yet mature.

The company's cash flow is tight, not because of lack of orders, but because the team is too large and needs to lay off employees. "When he thought back, he said that everyone was in a desperate mood at that time, and no one stopped to examine the real problem.

A serious mood will bring about self-hypnosis, making you feel that staying up late is serious. , investing all your money in starting a business is seriousness. This kind of emotion will make you ignore many risks.

Seriousness will sometimes make you mistakenly think that you have reached the upper limit. I was talking to a friend a few days ago. Complaining, why I have always been Zhang Poqian (the number of manuscripts read) and not Zhang Wuqian, Zhang Powan, Zhang Shiwan, Zhang Wanwan... I feel that I am very serious, doing interviews and writing stories seriously, I revised it twice after I finished writing it.

When I was writing this article, I remembered a friend named Lei who was also working on a self-media account. I used to see him in his circle of friends and leave at one or two in the morning. In the company, many stories take several months and more than ten revisions from topic selection, interviewing, writing to publication, but I have never seen him say how serious he is.

As a person who is truly committed, I never thought he was. If you are serious, you feel that you are not doing enough. The world rewards people who have no idea how serious they are. The company of Lei, who is less than 30 years old, has now raised two rounds of financing.

When you start to think that you are serious, what you are actually thinking is "I have worked hard" and "I am already very tired". But those who don't know how serious they are are thinking "It doesn't matter" and "I can still do it." "Do better", before you know it, you are already 10,000 steps ahead of you.

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The world will not reward people who are serious and perfunctory

We There must have been many students like this around me: they took beautiful and serious notes, listened carefully in class and never slept, did their homework neatly every day and never handed it in late, rushed to various cram schools on weekends, and then finally they went to Ordinary universities.

There are many people nowadays who go to work and get off work on time every day, never delay the work assigned by the boss, have good KPIs, do things that can be easily done day after day, and then finally 35 You are still earning a salary of 10,000 yuan.

You think you are very serious, but in fact you are just repeating it very seriously. If you are serious, you are not smart enough or creative enough. There is a schoolgirl who just entered the industry as an intern. , once I met a senior, he flipped through a few pages of a magazine and said: You are really bad at what you do, is this your real strength? She said: Of course not, but I only get a salary of 800 yuan, and my colleague The salary is much higher than mine, but I am not as serious about doing things as I am.

What’s the point of comparing myself to others and setting limits for myself? Truly serious people break through conventional thinking limitations and habits.

The CEO of the family trust business of a wealth management company said that when she first entered the industry, her boss asked her to make 100 customer calls every day. She knew very well that the ultimate purpose of making calls was to obtain customers. Instead of just going home after making 100 phone calls, she communicated for at least three minutes or even half an hour on each phone call. Although it was harder, it was far better than those who looked serious and polite after making 100 calls. A phone call is much more valuable.

Xiao Ran's seriousness is methodical and creative, while most people's seriousness in the workplace is serious repetition and perfunctory, and they often regard the passage of time as the growth of skills. Some people claim to have XX years of experience in a certain industry, but they don’t have any outstanding skills.

There are also people who are serious and constantly push the boundaries. My college senior, Deng Fei, transitioned from an investigative reporter to a public welfare company 7 years ago. At first, in the eyes of many people, he was just a more enthusiastic person. No one thought that he would continue to break through the boundaries of his original abilities. Recently, he has They have gone to the United States to set up foundations, and they also want to help African children eat free lunches.

The world will never reward those who are serious and perfunctory. If you just repeat it seriously and stay in the comfort zone seriously, what is the use of staying for ten or twenty years? Being serious means tossing outside the comfort zone. Get in touch with the unknown, break the limitations of your abilities, love what you do, and do things creatively.